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Bluegill
Bluegill's average length is around 7 inches and it usually weights around 0.5 to 1.5 pounds. It's back and sides are colored dark olive green with brownish reflections. The breast and belly of the Bluegill are yellow or redish-orange. Gill coverings and chin are bright blue, giving the Bluegill its name. Other common names for the Bluegill are: sunperch, blue sunfish, copperbelly, copperhead, yellowbelly and redbreasted sunfish. Bluegill is commonly found in Lake St. Clair and Rice Lake.
Popular Bait And Tackle For Bluegill
To catch the deep water bluegills, use worms or crickets, catalpa worms, pieces of shrimp, grubs, maggots, or try tiny spoons, spinners and jigs, twister tails, wet flies, streamers and insect patterns.
Where To Look For Bluegill
Spring: During the spring the bluegills are often in the shallows near the surface feeding. Follow the scent of decaying vegetation as bluegills disturb the lake floor in order to spawn, releasing airbubles containing the aroma of decaying vegetation.
Summer: As the water warms up the bluegill into deeper water. Look for them in waters over 30 feet deep, in schools over soft clay or mud. Also look for deep weed beds, suberged islands, floor depressions and other areas preffered by largemouth bass. When you find the area where there are mature bluegills, you can fish that area every year as they will likely be there.
Fall: In the fall, and winter, the bluegills stay in generally the same area where they are found in the summer. Look for them in deep weed beds and on the deep side of a weedy drop-off.
Summer: As the water warms up the bluegill into deeper water. Look for them in waters over 30 feet deep, in schools over soft clay or mud. Also look for deep weed beds, suberged islands, floor depressions and other areas preffered by largemouth bass. When you find the area where there are mature bluegills, you can fish that area every year as they will likely be there.
Fall: In the fall, and winter, the bluegills stay in generally the same area where they are found in the summer. Look for them in deep weed beds and on the deep side of a weedy drop-off.
